The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-04
In Brief.


EFT, afternoon and evening.
In Brief
A marriage license was issued yesterday to
Joseph T. Fox and Fannie Lowsburg.
James Baker was declared OF unsound mind
by Judge Ayres yesterday. and guardian will
De appointed
I Roswell s. Hill one of the bondsmen of City
Treasurer Pattison, was released yesterday morn
ing by paying over his share OF the deficiency.
Members of the Tippecanoe Club will meet at
No. 400 North California street at p. NJ, to-
morrow, to attend the funeral of Joseph Caylor.
member of the club.
The Louisville and Bedford Stone Company
filed articles of incorporation with the Secretary
of State yesterday. Joseph II. Teter, ). W. Cos
ner and Ernst X Burghead are the incorporat-
e orst The capital stock is $2o. OOO-
During May the Indianapolis mail-carriers
delivered 2 423 registered letters 100 434 postal
cards 522, 434 letters, and 1858 newspapers
They collected during the same period 2'4,32e
letters. 67,447 postal cards, and p, 467 news
papers.
PROPOSED FOR SCHOOL COMMISSIONER.
There is movement on foot in the Fifth
school district to bring out Roger Parry for
school commissioner, J. J. Bingham declining
re election, for the reason that he is going to
move ont of the district. Mr.. Parry has, for
peveral years, been foreman Of the Terre Haute
shops, and is a clear headed, practical business
man, and not the least bit of politician.
ANABUsED WIFE ENDS HER LIFE.
Mrs. Clara john residing with her mother
nm alley west Of Illinois street, between Market
and Ohio streets. com mitted suicide Thursday
night by taking laudanum. She recently
turned home from Columbus, o., where she left
a husband because of i'll treatment. She had
attempted to take her life twice before since she
same home She was but nineteen years OF age
PERMITS FOR ERECTING NEW BUILDINGS.
The following building permits were issued
Yesterday jane Green. frame cottage. on Reed
street near Prospect $500; w. Fromholt, frame
cottage on Delaware street near Merrill 5000;
M. III. Field, stone and brick church, corner of
Ash street and Home avenue, SO, 600: Anna Nc
Cormick frame dwelling. on West Washington
street railroad, $780, l.. II. McMurry,
frame cottage, on Illinois street near Eleventh,
$1,000. ..st ~
THE FLOWER MISSION.
Some one or more persons are canvassipg the
city, from time to time, in the name but with
out the authority of the Flower Mission. Re-
Gently, some woman has been personatng Miss
Stewart one of the leading ladies in this charity.
soliciting money to aid the sick or bury the dead.
The Flower Mission is not responsible for these
fraudulent collectors. and the ladies conducting
that noble charity desire to warn the public
against mpostors
CANDIDATES FOR BOARD OF TRADE OFFICERS.
The nominating committee of the Board of
Trade has agreed upon the following ticket for
The annual election of officers on the 18th inst:
President--J. $. Pratt.
ice-president--Wm. Scott. f7
Treasurer--D. A. Richardson. -
CIovernors-E b. Martindale, A. A. Barnes, d. p
E Erwin A II H;sI Sshwisse Peter Bryce i, =
Charles u. Hall and NJ A. WOODEN
An independent ticket will doubtless be placed
In the field in few days
CAUGHT AFTER Long PURSUIT..
DIR. John McCown, alias McQoun, who lived
Mt Hitchcock, Washington county, has for more
than year been sought by the United States
officers. He was indicted by the federal grand
jury for forging pension papers upon which, il is
said. he secured 81, 700 year ago an officer
went after him. but McCown left Indiana and
went to Kentucky. From that State the Off
GERS traced him to Iowa. and thence to Missouri
A week ago Marshal Hawkins heard of him at
Hopedale, ILL.,, and at that place, yesterday,
Deputy Marshal Ward arrested him.
A CARPENTERS FATAL FALL. $50
Peter Gardiner. carpenter living at No. 900
Huron street, fell from car in the Decline
shops Mt Brichtwood, yesterday morning, and
received injuries from which he died a few hours
,afterward. He was on a ladder, working near
the top of the car, when he slipped and fell,
striking his head on the sharp edge of a plank
He was taken home and attended by DIR. Marsoe,
but he died without recovering consciousness.
The skull was no. fractured, but death was the
result of conclusion Of the brain He
forty five years of age, and leaves a widow and
several children.
AMENDMENTS TO THE MARKET ORDINANCE.
Inc market committee met yesterday 10 con-
slider the grievances of the renters of stalls in the
market-house. and decided upon some changes
in the regulations. An amendment to the pres
ent ordinance is to be introduced at the meeting
of the Council on Monday night, prohibiting all
persons except farmers and gardeners from occu-
plying the space outside the building. The space
is to be divided into stalls of SxlO feet in size,
which are TO be rented at from SIS to $40, accord
ing to location. The amendment is satisfactory
TO the purchasers Of stalls inside the building,
49, cd Nhnwx1 Aho,-
rent
EAsILY-AcHIEvED HoNoRs.
DIR. James Mcleod Of the Second Church, is
chaplain of the Indianapolis Light Infantry. A
journal reporter. who CHANGED to meet him,
asked why he did not attend the reception given
at Tomlinson Hall to the Light Artillery and the
Infantry on their return from the Washington
encampment az very much regretted that
was not there" said the Doctor, ''to have re-
sponded for the company. The speeches aud
ceremonies generally put me in mind of do
nestle story. My small boy, Norman, came
home from school, the other day, in q very
cheerful mood. and told the family that he was
the head of his class. We felt very proud Of
him.
who's next to you NormanP inquired
"'Anna Mccoy said he.
"'And how many in the classp
"Just me and Anna Mccoy. said my small
boy ,,oucs. 81. ,..,,,c. ., .,,. ..o.r ,.,,,s
lie in the application of it. The Light Artillery
did nobly, but they hadn't body to drill
against except the Milwaukee girls, while the
Light Infantry had thirty companies to drill
against, and stood sixth, which is even better
than first in a competition of two"
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BUILDERS #
At the annual meeting of the Builders Ex-
change. last evening. the committee on natural
gas submitted very lengthy report, in which
they favored the piping of gas to the city as
room possible. The ordinance passed by the
Council was condemned as calculated to keep
put any company that capable of piping
the city II was recommended that the ordi-
nance should be amended as to not tax
Tho lines of the company, and not
require the city to be furnished with
gas free. resolution passed lnstructing
the committee to submit their report to the
Board of Aldermen at its next regular meeting.
The annual report of the secretary showed that
shore had been twenty-six meetings during the
year and that there 119 members in good